X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=web%2Fmanual.m4;h=ea5ebeb7ac2cfb701fd0b4b676f525b7fbc5c74f;hb=a24d175e6d093d6d9f6e583c3026e45924bad621;hp=5926b55536c736c0bd8f031bd596d51e31587fbb;hpb=c7250fb279af132333266af36e19c156dd84eca1;p=paraslash.git diff --git a/web/manual.m4 b/web/manual.m4 index 5926b555..ea5ebeb7 100644 --- a/web/manual.m4 +++ b/web/manual.m4 @@ -251,6 +251,10 @@ Optional: Linux, you'll need to have ALSA's development package libasound2-dev installed. + - XREFERENCE(http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ao/, + libao). Needed to build the ao writer (ESD, PulseAudio,...). + Debian package: libao-dev. + Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -1504,9 +1508,9 @@ Forward error correction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As already mentioned REFERENCE(Streaming protocols, earlier), -paraslash uses forward error correction (FEC) for the unreliable -UDP transport. FEC is a technique which was invented already in -1960 by Reed and Solomon and which is widely used for the parity +paraslash uses forward error correction (FEC) for the unreliable UDP +and DCCP transports. FEC is a technique which was invented already +in 1960 by Reed and Solomon and which is widely used for the parity calculations of storage devices (RAID arrays). It is based on the algebraic concept of finite fields, today called Galois fields, in honour of the mathematician Galois (1811-1832). The FEC implementation @@ -1533,7 +1537,7 @@ From these observations it is clear that there are three different FEC parameters: The slice size, the number of data slices k, and the total number of slices n. It is crucial to choose the slice size such that no fragmentation of network packets takes place because -FEC only guards against losses and reodering but fails if slices are +FEC only guards against losses and reordering but fails if slices are received partially. FEC decoding in paralash is performed through the fecdec filter which @@ -1678,6 +1682,11 @@ write the PCM data to a file on the file system rather than playing it through a sound device. It is supported on all platforms and is always compiled in. +*AO*. _Libao_ is a cross-platform audio library which supports a wide +variety of platforms including PulseAudio (gnome), ESD (Enlightened +Sound Daemon), AIX, Solaris and IRIX. The ao writer plays audio +through an output plugin of libao. + Examples ~~~~~~~~ @@ -2032,7 +2041,7 @@ detection of duplicate or reordered packets. Being a connectionless protocol, only minimal internal state about the connection is maintained, which means that there is no protection against packet loss or network congestion. Error checking and correction (if at all) -are performed in the application.' +are performed in the application. *DCCP*. The _Datagram Congestion Control Protocol_ combines the connection-oriented state maintenance known from TCP with the